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Hackers get $1,262,000 for 98 zero-days at Pwn2Own Ireland
The Pwn2Own Ireland 2026 hacking contest has concluded, with hackers collecting $1,262,000 in rewards after exploiting 98 zero-day flaws. Ikotas Labs security researchers won this year’s Pwn2Own Ireland edition with 42.5 Master of Pwn points and $361,000 earned over the three-day contest after hacking the Samsung Galaxy S26, OpenAI Codex, and the Oracle Autonomous AI […]
Samsung Galaxy S26 hacked three more times at Pwn2Own Ireland
On the second day of Pwn2Own Ireland 2026, security researchers collected $232,500 in cash awards after exploiting 45 unique zero-day vulnerabilities. The day’s highlight was the Samsung Galaxy S26 flagship getting hacked three times by KAIST Hacking Lab‘s Kyeongmin Kim, PetoWorks, and a team made up of Dimitrios Valsamaras, Ken Gannon, and CENSUS Labs’s Tenia Valsamara. […]
Hackers exploit 32 zero-days on first day of Pwn2Own Ireland
On the first day of the Pwn2Own Ireland 2026 competition, security researchers hacked the Samsung Galaxy S26 twice and earned $388,500 after exploiting 32 zero-days. During the Pwn2Own Ireland 2026 hacking contest, competitors target products in seven categories, including mobile phones (Apple iPhone 17, Samsung Galaxy S26, and Google Pixel 10), printers, smart home devices, […]
Google fined €403 million over location data privacy violations
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Google €403 million ($463M) for multiple GDPR violations related to processing users’ location data. The agency launched an investigation in February 2020 after receiving multiple complaints from consumer rights organizations. It examined three Google features that were active during the GDPR application period from May 25, 2018, through […]
Ireland now also investigating X over Grok-made sexual images
Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), the country’s data protection authority, has opened a formal investigation into X over the use of the platform’s Grok artificial intelligence tool to generate non-consensual sexual images of real people, including children. The DPC, which also serves as the lead European Union privacy regulator for X due to the company’s […]
Ireland recalls almost 13,000 passports over missing ‘IRL’ code
Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs has recalled nearly 13,000 passports after a software update caused a printing defect. The printing error makes the documents non-compliant with international travel standards and potentially unreadable at automated border gates. Missing ‘IRL’ code The government said the affected passports, issued between December 23 and January 6, may fail at eGates and […]
Hackers earn $1,024,750 for 73 zero-days at Pwn2Own Ireland
The Pwn2Own Ireland 2025 hacking competition has ended with security researchers collecting $1,024,750 in cash awards after exploiting 73 zero-day vulnerabilities. At Pwn2Own Ireland 2025, competitors targeted products in eight categories, including printers, network storage systems, messaging apps, smart home devices, surveillance equipment, home networking equipment, flagship smartphones (Apple iPhone 16, Samsung Galaxy S25, and Google Pixel 9), and wearable […]
Pwn2Own Day 2: Hackers exploit 56 zero-days for $790,000
Security researchers collected $792,750 in cash after exploiting 56 unique zero-day vulnerabilities during the second day of the Pwn2Own Ireland 2025 hacking competition. Today’s highlight was Ken Gannon of Mobile Hacking Lab and Dimitrios Valsamaras of Summoning Team hacking the Samsung Galaxy S25 with a chain of five security flaws, earning $50,000 and 5 Master of Pwn points. Also, while PHP Hooligans needed only a single […]
Hackers exploit 34 zero-days on first day of Pwn2Own Ireland
On the first day of Pwn2Own Ireland 2025, security researchers exploited 34 unique zero-days and collected $522,500 in cash awards. The highlight of the day was Bongeun Koo and Evangelos Daravigkas of Team DDOS chaining eight zero-day flaws to hack the QNAP Qhora-322 Ethernet wireless router via the WAN interface and gain access to a QNAP TS-453E NAS device. […]
Pwn2Own hacking contest pays $1 million for WhatsApp exploit
The Zero Day Initiative is offering a $1 million reward to security researchers who will demonstrate a zero-click WhatsApp exploit at its upcoming Pwn2Own Ireland 2025 hacking contest. The record bounty targets zero-click security flaws that allow code execution without user interaction on the messaging platform used by more than three billion people worldwide. Meta, […]